FTPS implicit via Powershell: 530 User cannot log in

I have a problem connecting to my FTPS server from Powershell. From GUI my username/pass works.
Maybe there's a problem that username is ftp.something.com|USER ?
Please help.


Here's log:


. 2014-10-24 13:42:52.187 --------------------------------------------------------------------------
. 2014-10-24 13:42:52.187 Script: Retrospectively logging previous script records:
> 2014-10-24 13:42:52.187 Script: option batch on
< 2014-10-24 13:42:52.187 Script: batch on
> 2014-10-24 13:42:52.187 Script: option confirm off
< 2014-10-24 13:42:52.187 Script: confirm off
> 2014-10-24 13:42:52.187 Script: open -implicit -certificate="xxxxxx" -passive=1 -timeout=15 ftp://ftp.xxxx.com%7CUSER:***@ftp.xxx.com:990
. 2014-10-24 13:42:52.187 --------------------------------------------------------------------------
. 2014-10-24 13:42:52.187 Session name: ftp.xxxx.com|USER@ftp.xxxxx.com (Ad-Hoc site)
. 2014-10-24 13:42:52.187 Host name: ftp.xxxx.com (Port: 990)
. 2014-10-24 13:42:52.187 User name: ftp.xxx.com|USER (Password: Yes, Key file: No)
. 2014-10-24 13:42:52.187 Tunnel: No
. 2014-10-24 13:42:52.187 Transfer Protocol: FTP
. 2014-10-24 13:42:52.187 Ping type: C, Ping interval: 30 sec; Timeout: 15 sec
. 2014-10-24 13:42:52.187 Proxy: none
. 2014-10-24 13:42:52.187 Send buffer: 262144
. 2014-10-24 13:42:52.187 UTF: 2
. 2014-10-24 13:42:52.187 FTP: FTPS: Implicit TLS/SSL; Passive: Yes [Force IP: A]; MLSD: A [List all: A]
. 2014-10-24 13:42:52.187 Session reuse: Yes
. 2014-10-24 13:42:52.187 TLS/SSL versions: TLSv1.0-TLSv1.2
. 2014-10-24 13:42:52.187 Local directory: default, Remote directory: home, Update: Yes, Cache: Yes
. 2014-10-24 13:42:52.187 Cache directory changes: Yes, Permanent: Yes
. 2014-10-24 13:42:52.187 DST mode: 1; Timezone offset: 0h 0m
. 2014-10-24 13:42:52.187 --------------------------------------------------------------------------
. 2014-10-24 13:42:52.441 Connecting to ftp.xxxxx.com:990 ...
. 2014-10-24 13:42:52.498 Connected with ftp.xxxxx.com:990, negotiating TLS connection...
. 2014-10-24 13:42:52.625 Verifying certificate for "xxxx" with fingerprint xxxxxxxx
. 2014-10-24 13:42:52.625 Certificate common name "ftp.xxxxx.com" matches hostname
. 2014-10-24 13:42:52.625 Using TLSv1.2, cipher TLSv1/SSLv3: RC4-SHA, 2048 bit RSA
. 2014-10-24 13:42:52.626 TLS connection established. Waiting for welcome message...
< 2014-10-24 13:42:52.626 220 Microsoft FTP Service
> 2014-10-24 13:42:52.626 USER ftp.xxxx.com|USER
< 2014-10-24 13:42:52.674 331 Password required
> 2014-10-24 13:42:52.675 PASS ********
< 2014-10-24 13:42:52.724 530 User cannot log in.
. 2014-10-24 13:42:52.724 Connection failed.
. 2014-10-24 13:42:52.727 Password prompt (last login attempt failed)

Please attach a log from GUI.

Maybe there's a problem that username is ftp.something.com|USER ?

Thanks does not seem to be the problem. As you can see in the log, correct username is passed to USER command.

What I discovered is that no matter what I will post in $session.remotePath, in logs there is always "home".


GUI log shows correct path.


. 2014-10-27 10:25:31.208 Connecting to ftp..com:990 ...
. 2014-10-27 10:25:31.262 Connected with ftp.com:990, negotiating TLS connection...
. 2014-10-27 10:25:31.439 Verifying certificate for "." with fingerprint
. 2014-10-27 10:25:31.440 Certificate common name "ftp.com" matches hostname
. 2014-10-27 10:25:31.440 Using TLSv1.2, cipher TLSv1/SSLv3: RC4-SHA, 2048 bit RSA
. 2014-10-27 10:25:31.468 TLS connection established. Waiting for welcome message...
< 2014-10-27 10:25:31.468 220 Microsoft FTP Service
> 2014-10-27 10:25:31.468 USER ftp.com|USER
< 2014-10-27 10:25:31.529 331 Password required
> 2014-10-27 10:25:31.529 PASS **********
< 2014-10-27 10:25:31.636 230-Directory has 214,414,741,504 bytes of disk space available.
< 2014-10-27 10:25:31.636 230 User logged in.
> 2014-10-27 10:25:31.636 SYST
< 2014-10-27 10:25:31.744 215 Windows_NT
> 2014-10-27 10:25:31.744 FEAT
< 2014-10-27 10:25:31.832 211-Extended features supported:
< 2014-10-27 10:25:31.832 LANG EN*
< 2014-10-27 10:25:31.832 UTF8
< 2014-10-27 10:25:31.832 AUTH TLS;TLS-C;SSL;TLS-P;
< 2014-10-27 10:25:31.843 PBSZ
< 2014-10-27 10:25:31.843 PROT C;P;
< 2014-10-27 10:25:31.843 CCC
< 2014-10-27 10:25:31.843 HOST
< 2014-10-27 10:25:31.843 SIZE
< 2014-10-27 10:25:31.843 MDTM
< 2014-10-27 10:25:31.843 REST STREAM
< 2014-10-27 10:25:31.843 211 END
> 2014-10-27 10:25:31.843 OPTS UTF8 ON
< 2014-10-27 10:25:31.939 200 OPTS UTF8 command successful - UTF8 encoding now ON.
> 2014-10-27 10:25:31.939 PBSZ 0
< 2014-10-27 10:25:32.040 200 PBSZ command successful.
> 2014-10-27 10:25:32.040 PROT P
< 2014-10-27 10:25:32.153 200 PROT command successful.
. 2014-10-27 10:25:32.173 Connected
. 2014-10-27 10:25:32.174 --------------------------------------------------------------------------
. 2014-10-27 10:25:32.174 Using FTP protocol.
. 2014-10-27 10:25:32.176 Doing startup conversation with host.
> 2014-10-27 10:25:32.228 PWD
< 2014-10-27 10:25:32.347 257 "/" is current directory.
. 2014-10-27 10:25:32.382 Changing directory to "\".
> 2014-10-27 10:25:32.382 CWD \
< 2014-10-27 10:25:32.476 250 CWD command successful.
. 2014-10-27 10:25:32.476 Getting current directory name.
> 2014-10-27 10:25:32.476 PWD
< 2014-10-27 10:25:32.557 257 "/" is current directory.
. 2014-10-27 10:25:32.737 Retrieving directory listing...
> 2014-10-27 10:25:32.738 TYPE A
< 2014-10-27 10:25:32.749 200 Type set to A.
> 2014-10-27 10:25:32.750 PASV
< 2014-10-27 10:25:32.804 227 Entering Passive Mode ().
> 2014-10-27 10:25:32.805 LIST -a

There's nothing like $session.remotePath.

Anyway, is there any special character in your password?
I'm sending you a dev version of WinSCP to address you have used to register on this forum.

Could you send me .dll to 5.6.3 version?
You've sent me .dll to 5.5.6.0 version.


No matter what path I will add to:
$remotePath

log shows 'home' which is not correct path.

. 2014-11-03 15:10:38.827 Local directory: default, Remote directory: home, Update: Yes, Cache: Yes

GUI log shows correct path:

. 2014-10-30 12:36:02.452 Local directory: C:\Users\xxxx\Documents, Remote directory: /test, Update: Yes, Cache: Yes

is there any special character in your password?

I tried with password without any special characters.
But error says straight:
530 User cannot log in, home directory inaccessible.

It's not user/password. It's remote directory which this script force to use 'home' instead any provided in $remotePath

malva wrote:

I tried with password without any special characters.
But error says straight:
530 User cannot log in, home directory inaccessible.

But that's a different error than before. So the error changed when you used a password without special characters, right?

It's not user/password. It's remote directory which this script force to use 'home' instead any provided in $remotePath

You didn't show us your code. So we do not know what you refer to by $remotePath.

Could you send me .dll to 5.6.3 version?
You've sent me .dll to 5.5.6.0 version

No I did not. Please try to download the winscp20141031rmalvaautomation.zip again.

It was error 530 all the time.

Anyways it works now. In my IIS8 I deleted bindings for FTP server.
I have no idea if it's IIS8 problem or what, but with login like "hostname|user" it doesn't work (hostname added in bindings in IIS). With just "user" it works (without hostname in bindings in IIS).

And code is as follows if anybody needs:

malva wrote:

It was error 530 all the time.

Code is the same, but text has changed from "530 User cannot log in." to "530 User cannot log in, home directory inaccessible. "